Climbing Olympus project is a unique educational program aimed at popularizing Olympic values, promoting the fair play principles and strengthening friendly ties between young athletes. The program introduces participants to the history and traditions of the Children of Asia Games, as well as forms their understanding of clean sport and sports ethics.
Leading experts in sports and Olympism, antidoping specialists and sports psychologists are invited to the project. Thanks to their contribution, the program becomes not only educational, but also motivational, inspiring young athletes to achieve higher results.
The program consists of the following modules:
- Olympic Lecture: young athletes learn the history of olympism and Children of Asia International Sports Games in the format of a fascinating lecture, animated cartoon and interactive test.
- Clean Sport: specialists of an anti-doping agency present the culture of zero tolerance to doping, types of anti-doping violations, present real cases from sports life, conduct the Outreach quiz.
- Future Champion: professional sports psychologists conduct trainings and activities to develop attention, reaction and talk about the peculiarities of psychological support during sports competitions.
The program includes meetings with famous athletes, world and Olympic champions, outstanding alumni of the Children of Asia Games.
Geography
The Climbing Olympus program was successfully conducted for the first time during the 2nd Winter Children of Asia Games in Kuzbass bringing together more than 2,000 athletes. Since then the project has been actively developing and covers new regions and countries.
The Children of Asia International Committee has organized the program in the following cities:
- Bishkek (Kyrgyz Republic)
- Bangkok (Thailand)
- Astana (Republic of Kazakhstan)
- Vladivostok (Russia)
- Yakutsk (Russia)
- Kuwait Сity
